Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The ordeal suffered by Robert and Susan Turner is a terrible portent for TalkTalk customers whose data was stolen in last week’s cyber attack. For a year, the Turners lived a nightmare. Every evening their phones would start ringing at 25-minute…
Kremlin’s ties to Russian cyber gangs sow US concerns
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The relationship between Moscow and Russian cyber gangs may be tightening, spurred by international sanctions and disputes with the United States over military action in Ukraine and Syria, experts and federal lawmakers warn. Moscow has long been known to source its…
Crime gangs go hi-tech to target elderly people
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Elderly people will be one of the main targets of sophisticated networks that hire out their services in the criminal underworld of the future, according to a report from Europol. They will exploit the latest technology and scientific discoveries, including nanotechnology,…
Canada Alerts Consumers About Gangs Indulging in Credit Card Fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Anti-Fraud authorities in Canada have warned credit card holders about a new phishing scam that tries to extract card information from owners through an early-hour phone call. According to Daniel Williams, a senior official at the anti-fraud centre, the scam begins…
Russell T Davies to turns his attention to sextortion gangs with new drama
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 drama Cucumber (which has an E4 sister piece Banana) is thrilling viewers with its hilarious and tender take on modern gay life in Manchester. As there will be no Cucumber 2, he…
Al-Shabaab gangs in East Africa
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Regional Threat and risk alerts news. The International police organization (Interpol) on Monday (August 25) warned of new security threats by organized criminal gangs including terrorist militants which have caused instability in the Eastern Africa Region. The Head of Interpol […]…
Africa’s cybercrime gangs move way beyond 419 scams
In a 11 August blog post, Trend warns that the region’s criminals are running campaigns to deliver banking malware like Zeus/ZBOT, and using botnets in targeted attacks to launch remote access Trojans (RATs) like the Blackshades toolkit to steal passwords, […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
ICE counsels Bahamas police force on transnational gangs
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Bahamian workshop Citing a steady worldwide rise in transnational organized gang activity, U.S. immigration enforcement agencies are helping some Caribbean nations beleaguered by the groups. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) National Gang Unit led a workshop to…
Cybercrime dominated by organised gangs, academic study finds
The criminal possibilities of the online world have primed a “fourth era” of organised crime that is having a major effect on all forms of illegal activity around the globe, an academic study from John Grieve Centre for Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University has said. By the reckoning…
Chicago gangs rely on social media to communicate
Author: Lindsey J. Bertomen UPI CHICAGO — The more than 68,000 members of Chicago-area gangs often rely on the Internet to coordinate crimes and provoke rival gang members, a law enforcement book says. The Chicago Crime Commission Gang Book says gang members use computers and smartphones for "cybertagging" — graffiti…
